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| Parthenon Huxley Sunny Nights reviewed by Parke Puterbaugh in Rolling Stone Magazine (Unedited review, with four star rating intact, sent personally to Huxley by Mr. Puterbaugh.) **** To name oneself after the Parthenon, the crowning glory of the Greek civilization, is an audacious move for a singer / guitarist making his first album. Taking the surname of Huxley (as in Aldous) is an equally bold stroke. Sunny Nights proves to be as enigmatic as its creator, and as oxymoronic as its title. There are both riddles and resolutions in the lyrics; musically, difficult melodies give way to straight-forward, bone-crunching rock and pleasant, mid-Sixties flavored pop... |
| P. Hux "Deluxe" reviewed by Anthony Henderson in Audities Magazine This could easily be the album that starts the next wave of widespread pop acceptance. With works by Matthew Sweet and Oasis paving the way and preparing the mass market psyche, the time might be just right. Where Sweet and Oasis are really pop outfits disguised with layers of fuzz and feedback or nouveau-retro British invasion sensibilities respectively,... |
| P. Hux "Deluxe" reviewed by Fred Mills in Magnet Had it not been for this guy called Rick Miller--not the one in Southern Culture On The Skids, but a Chapel Hill guitarist/rock critic--helping me out on my very first professional writing gig back in 1979, I might never have wound up in your present-day hands. (So blame him.) Like the folks in that Harry Chapin song, we went our ways and lost touch. Then I spotted him years later in the record bins under his real name, Parthenon Huxley. Now he fronts a band in Los Angeles, a trio called P. Hux... READ MORE... |
| P. Hux, Jon Brion at Largo previewed by Michael Simmons in The L.A. Weekly The problem with so much power pop is its tendency to be British Invasion redux. Parthenon Huxley, lead singer/guitarist and songwriter of P. Hux, has never beat his meatle trying to redo Beatles For Sale... READ MORE... |
